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bruceleroy99 OP t1_iudvu2i wrote

Reply to comment by WeDriftEternal in when did commercial breaks get so long?! by bruceleroy99

lol my math is off because I'm angry? that's.... not how it works.

> 44-46 for an hour long

well the recording is 1h9m, so that would be about 25m of commercials assuming it's an average of 45m. I was watching eps 3-6 at the time, so looking at the wiki the episode lengths are 46, 44, 50, and 44 the the bare minimum there is ~20m of ad time (assuming that 50m ep recording wasn't actually 1h15m or more).

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WeDriftEternal t1_iue4u5d wrote

AMC does some funky stuff when they have these off-timing shows occasionally. Really, they're the only channel that does, they may be doing the thing where they push more ads right at the beginning of the hour (as the show extended a few minutes into the next hour), which is why they are extending the length slightly. It allows them to push more ad viewership for nielsen into a 5th quarter hour time slot.

This is highly unusual though, so they are kinda one-off weird exceptions.

Generally the most you'd see is 18 minutes in an hour, but even this is rare, 16 is more common for max ad time per hour, and its usually fairly spaced out evenly, give or take

1h9m would realistically be a about 22 minutes, at most of commercial time, that is if they do some awkward stuff with the extra 9 minutes, and go full steam on ads during the first hour

Just more explaining how it actually works for commercial blocks during airings

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